Fire Tornado in Slow Motion
AdultsInternet CultureNatureScience...Gav and Dan combine wind with fire to create a swirling vortex of flames.
GoPro: Pelican Learns To Fish
AdultsAnimalsHumanRelationships...After being separated from his flock during a storm, Bigbird the pelican was taken in by the staff at a safari camp. Jeffrey, the camp manager, took Bigbird out each morning to fish and developed an unlikely friendship.
The First "Glowing" Sea Turtle Has Been Discovered
AdultsAnimalsBiologyNature...While filming coral off the Solomon Islands, David Gruber, a National Geographic Emerging Explorer, encountered a "bright red-and-green spaceship." This underwater UFO turned out to be a hawksbill sea turtle, which is significant because it's the first time that biofluorescence has ever been seen in reptiles, according to Gruber. Gruber is now excited to learn more about this critically endangered species and how it is using biofluorescence.
How do tornadoes form?
AdultsNaturePhysicsScience...Tornadoes are the most violent storms on Earth, with wind velocities that can exceed 200 miles per hour. How do these terrifying cyclones form? Meteorologist James Spann sheds light on the lifespan of tornadoes as they go from supercell thunderstorms to terrible twisters before eventually dissolving back into thin air.
How Fighting Wildfires Makes Them Worse
AdultsEnvironmentNatureToday's wildfires burn, on average, twice the amount of land they did in 1970. The reason? We've been working too hard to put them out.
Evolutionarily Stable Strategies ft. Richard Dawkins
AdultsEnvironmentNatureWhen evolution favours a stable ratio of traits rather than one dominant trait.